'a' 'e' 'i' 'o' 'u' and NEVER 'y'

[Mentok]

When I was a kid I watched a sand animation cartoon where the characters sung "a, e, i, o, u... La la la...la la la..."

I believe each episode had the characters walking along singing then getting attacked my a vowel monster then running away.

It was only like 40 seconds long... I think it was french.




Or just a bad drug trip

 

[JanG]

ill try to remember that in the future when i need to know what a consonant is.

It's any damn letter that isn't a vowel!

aarraraggeegg :screams:.

 

[Holly Goodhead]

It's any damn letter that isn't a vowel!

aarraraggeegg :screams:.

well thats all you had to say, no fancy dictionary terms.

 

[Kipobe]

When I was a kid I watched a sand animation cartoon where the characters sung "a, e, i, o, u... La la la...la la la..."

I believe each episode had the characters walking along singing then getting attacked my a vowel monster then running away.

It was only like 40 seconds long... I think it was french.




Or just a bad drug trip

If I do nothing else of value for the remainder of my lifetime... I at least MUST see this show!

 

[Mentok]

I think it was from the late 70's. I will try and find it on teh internet.

 

[Lackey]

vowolas?

yes, please.

 

[Danalys]

i think every consonant should have an associated vowel sound at the end. then just write in consonants. i forget how many unique vowel sounds there are tho. but you'd only use as many consonants as there were vowel sounds to match them to.

 

[Holly Goodhead]

yes, please.

What? I;m just not with it tonight..or you people are just very confusing.

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

When I was a kid I watched a sand animation cartoon where the characters sung "a, e, i, o, u... La la la...la la la..."

I believe each episode had the characters walking along singing then getting attacked my a vowel monster then running away.

It was only like 40 seconds long... I think it was french.




Or just a bad drug trip

I remember one where they sang

"T-I-O-N shun shun shun shun T-I-O-ENNNN!"

 

[Maxwell Smart]

"Hey kids i'm a vowel"

You gotta love the old 70s education cartoons.

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

 

[Maxwell Smart]

Good stuff.

 

[Ocelot]

What? I;m just not with it tonight..or you people are just very confusing.

Rent a gun and buy a bullet. Please.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Rent a gun and buy a bullet. Please.

There are some on here whom I know for a fact would like to make the same suggestion to you, so I wouldn't go around typing that to other people.

 

[Ocelot]

There are some on here whom I know for a fact would like to make the same suggestion to you, so I wouldn't go around typing that to other people.

I won't argue that, but I'm not stupid enough to actually heed that suggestion, unlike whats-her-face. But its for a good cause, and these days, thats all you need.

 

[Master Chief]

Rent a gun and buy a bullet. Please.

Buy one of these for yourself.

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

ok enough please, this WAS a fun topic. Silly but fun. Don't make it into crap.

 

[Ocelot]

Buy one of these for yourself.

Buy yourself a mirror. Oh wait you can't BECAUSE YOU"RE NOT BEAUTIFUL!

 

[Master Chief]

Buy yourself a mirror. Oh wait you can't BECAUSE YOU"RE NOT BEAUTIFUL!

...Damn, that's a good one.

Anyways, six vowels is strange.

 

[Outsiderzedge]

Buy yourself a mirror. Oh wait you can't BECAUSE YOU"RE NOT BEAUTIFUL!

 

[Flexo]

Anyways, if you say A-E-I-O-U really fast in a robotic sounding voice, it kinda sounds like a transformer transforming- but not really.

Darnit, now I'm going to be doing this all day.

 

[Niobe]

By that definition, Czechoslovakia would have to make 'z' a vowel. You lose, Man of Thing.

Czechoslovakia?

 

[Alpha and Omega]

I thought that 'y' was a transitional vowel, primarily when a word had a suffix:

ex: lying, vying, etc. . . or maybe I'm completely off-base here. Still, when I was in grade school, we always learned that 'y' was a vowel in certain instances.

 

[November Rain]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, easy there cowboy.... didn't ask for your life story.

owned

 

[November Rain]

Y is a vowel that sometimes either replaces I or E in crazy words that people along time ago decided would look better spelt with a Y rather than and I or E

ie sky as apposed to ski or ske which would give people the wrong impression of how it's pronounced

same goes with fly cry, not with pie though, although all the words rhyme.

Rhythms is the longest word without a vowel...

even though the y is used to be a vowle, the 'thms' part could also be said to be a vowel...

basically 90% of all prounouceable syllables of the english language should have a vowell present in them in one form or another, although there are plent of exceptions...

all in all it's just used to make another sound to differentiate small words that would on paper sound alike but in reality sound very different

ie ski, sky, and skee(t)

voila.